we protest its unsafe and destructive use by heavy trucks, 18-wheel semis, and sand, gravel and concrete trucks.

In addition to endangering pedestrians, large trucks pose an environmental risk to area wildlife.

THE FACTS OF THE MATTER

For the thousands of residents who live on or around it Douglas Rd. is and should be considered a neighborhood road in a somewhat rural setting. It should be safe for children to cross, bicyclists and runners to enjoy, and birdlife to thrive.

But for Larimer County officials, it is an increasingly-used heavy truck route with unregulated speed limits used for long-haul heavy truck transport.

This has been an ongoing issue for decades. You can read in the resources section on this website that Fort Collins city and Larimer County officials have purposefully ignored the problem and instead incrementally worsened it over the years. This to allow for “growth,” saying after the fact, “trucks need a way to get from A to B.”

We all know that growth in Larimer County inevitable. What we now also know is that failure to properly plan for that growth, taking into account the health and safety of Larimer County residents and wildlife, means dangerous and unhealthy living situations.

The facts about Douglas Road are on the side of the families who live on and around it. This campaign aims to have city and county officials take into account the health and safety of the surrounding habitat and residents and finally consider Douglas Road as the neighborhood road that it is.

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Semi-truck traffic has been the subject of countless studies for over 50 years. The 1999 the Citizen-Initiated Ordinance (Truck Route Relocation) required the City of Fort Collins “to permanently abandon any alternative truck route in the vicinity of East Vine Drive and prohibiting consideration of an alternative truck route between the currently existing truck route and two miles north of Douglas Road.

Decades upon decades of punting the truck traffic problem onto residential roads in Larimer County has exponentially increased

the hazardous burden of semi-trucks in our neighborhoods and diminished our property values, making our streets and homes a less pleasant, less safe place to live.

If significant numbers of semi-trucks are allowed to consistently use (and abuse)

a County road as a through-traffic route between I-25 and US-287 then it has become, by tacit approval, a truck-route bypass.